Dandelyon's Worlds

Which makes me feel sleepy anyway, but also I stayed up until after dawn playing MTG with my partner, with a wonderful cool night-time breeze coming in the window.

The day lilies are starting to bloom (mostly tiger lilies), and the roses are still blooming, and I should go out and weed around the tomatoes and cucumbers and all. Got to be careful where I planted beans not to "weed" them!

See you soon!

So, they predicted wonderful weather until the thunderstorm hit. So, we thought, we'll clean up the yard and plant bulbs.

So, I was sitting here eating my breakfast and I hear a thump. I go into the bedroom--nothing got knocked over by a cat. Then I looked out the window--a piece of siding fell off the house. Oh, wonderful.

Once MyAngel got up, we spent the afternoon on the porch, cleaning out a squirrel's nest (plus dead squirrel), sistering or replacing damaged wood, and putting up one of the leftover pieces of siding stored in the basement. The leftover 2x4s in the basement were old hardwood--sturdy, but not the fastest things to nail t We finally used part of the piece that fell off to cover a remaining hole, temporarily, since it was getting dark and windy. We'll have to properly cut another piece of siding, as well as replacing insulation and properly sealing everything on another day.

Fun fun.

And now the storm is blowing in.

Here's hoping we did enough, at least, for today's storm.

The bulbs are all still in their packages.

On the positive side, the neighbors like the purple flowers we were too busy to go down and properly identify. Here's hoping the storm doesn't shred them before tomorrow.

We have a bit of our garden that is an equal-armed cross in a circle. one quarter has always been herbs; the sage from two years ago has been propagating there; one of the colored sage plants from last year (purple or white or varigated, it's too young to tell) also survived the winter. The center is the first place I've put chocolate mint where it thrived, and now it is invading the quarters. (Yum).


I'd dug up two of the quarters very early in the spring, and planted old seeds, peas and spinach. The peas mostly sprouted, there and in other spots; the spinach only in a different spot. And more recently I dug up the other quarter not involved in growing sage, and put tomato plants there. So today's first task was, I thought, to dig up the parts of the final quarter, carefully avoiding the now-flowering large sage plant and the chocolate mint.


However, upon closer inspection, I found that the purple basil had seeded most of the quarter, and liberally mixed with dandelions, creeping charley, and other weeds were tiny, 1-2 inch purple basil plants. Hah! So much for a quick turn-over to bury the weeds. (My cell-phone camera gets blurry close enough to get a good picture of the basil.)

So I spent a while very carefully weeding, which is when I found the varigated or purple sage plant that had survived, and transplanting the basil plants that came out of the ground to other parts of the garden. And the ones that had rooted between the bricks bordering the garden. And, in the midst of this--a butterfly.


And to my surprise, one of the varieties of peas I planted has purple flowers!